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Music History Timeline Project

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

    Time range for Medieval Period
  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne (Years as Holy Roman Emperor

    500-600 tunes were established during his reign, which later expanded to 3000. Music during this time wasn’t necessarily stored or kept, so having this documentation was big for music historians to discover.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    A type of polyphony that contains a vox principalis (main voice), vox organalis (organal voice, improvised), and a parallel and oblique structure.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus (Little Treatise) helped develop our modern day solfege (solmization), before known as the Hexachord System, four line staff, and sight sining
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1163 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne / Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Established rhthmic notation (double long, long, breve semibreve); established consonant and dissonant intervals.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Established more rhythmic notation which became more of a characteristic of the new music era; there was an increased use of notes with smaller values.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Performed in the Courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Florence

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Composed by Giovanni Gabrieli. Written for St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy. It is the earliest known piece to call for specific brass instruments and the first known piece to use dynamics.
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

    Began around the 1670s
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    JS Bach

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    Handel

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    There were two volumes, the second being published in 1740
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    Pre-classical period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

    The Dublin and first Premiere was in 1742 during Lent
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    WA Mozart

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    Viennese Classical period

  • Period: to

    Beethoven Birth and Death

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op. 33 string quartets (published)

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

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    Schubert

  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (premiere)

  • Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op. 1 (publication date)

  • Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"

  • Symphony No. 9

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Clara Wieck Schumann "Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

  • Verdi's La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottshalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (premiere)

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov (premiere)

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere)

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4 (premiere)

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1 (premiere)

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "New World"

  • Debussy’s Prélude à l'après midi d’un faune (premiere)

  • Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia (premiere)

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky’s Le sacre du Printemps

  • Schönberg’s Piano Suite, Op. 25

  • George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong’s “Hotter Than That”

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Ellington’s Cottontail

  • Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgard Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine